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most citedIntermediate-Task Transfer Learning with Pretrained Models for Natural Language Understanding: When and Why Does It Work?

53 citations · 208 across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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27 papers

cs.CL2026

Muse Glimmer 30B: An On-Device Agentic Model

Arash Ebrahim Abtahizadeh, Muna Aghamelu, Adil Ahmed +327

We introduce Muse Glimmer, an open-source 30B parameter causal language model with perception encoder, purpose-built for autonomous agentic tasks on consumer hardware. Muse Glimmer…

cs.CL2024

Transformers Struggle to Learn to Search

Abulhair Saparov, Srushti Pawar, Shreyas Pimpalgaonkar +6

Search is an ability foundational in many important tasks, and recent studies have shown that large language models (LLMs) struggle to perform search robustly. It is unknown whethe…

cs.CL2024

Self-Generated Critiques Boost Reward Modeling for Language Models

Yue Yu, Zhengxing Chen, Aston Zhang +10

Reward modeling is crucial for aligning large language models (LLMs) with human preferences, especially in reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF). However, current rewar…

cs.CL2024

Self-Consistency Preference Optimization

Archiki Prasad, Weizhe Yuan, Richard Yuanzhe Pang +6

Self-alignment, whereby models learn to improve themselves without human annotation, is a rapidly growing research area. However, existing techniques often fail to improve complex…

cs.CL2024★ 3 cited

Self-Taught Evaluators

Tianlu Wang, Ilia Kulikov, Olga Golovneva +7

Model-based evaluation is at the heart of successful model development -- as a reward model for training, and as a replacement for human evaluation. To train such evaluators, the s…

cs.LG2024★ 37 cited

An Introduction to Vision-Language Modeling

Florian Bordes, Richard Yuanzhe Pang, Anurag Ajay +38

Following the recent popularity of Large Language Models (LLMs), several attempts have been made to extend them to the visual domain. From having a visual assistant that could guid…

cs.CL2024★ 4 cited

Iterative Reasoning Preference Optimization

Richard Yuanzhe Pang, Weizhe Yuan, Kyunghyun Cho +3

Iterative preference optimization methods have recently been shown to perform well for general instruction tuning tasks, but typically make little improvement on reasoning tasks (Y…

cs.CL2024★ 10 cited

Self-Rewarding Language Models

Weizhe Yuan, Richard Yuanzhe Pang, Kyunghyun Cho +4

We posit that to achieve superhuman agents, future models require superhuman feedback in order to provide an adequate training signal. Current approaches commonly train reward mode…

cs.AI2023★ 27 cited

GPQA: A Graduate-Level Google-Proof Q&A Benchmark

David Rein, Betty Li Hou, Asa Cooper Stickland +5

We present GPQA, a challenging dataset of 448 multiple-choice questions written by domain experts in biology, physics, and chemistry. We ensure that the questions are high-quality…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

Leveraging Implicit Feedback from Deployment Data in Dialogue

Richard Yuanzhe Pang, Stephen Roller, Kyunghyun Cho +2

We study improving social conversational agents by learning from natural dialogue between users and a deployed model, without extra annotations. To implicitly measure the quality o…

cs.CL2023★ 17 cited

Testing the General Deductive Reasoning Capacity of Large Language Models Using OOD Examples

Abulhair Saparov, Richard Yuanzhe Pang, Vishakh Padmakumar +4

Given the intractably large size of the space of proofs, any model that is capable of general deductive reasoning must generalize to proofs of greater complexity. Recent studies ha…

cs.LG2023★ 6 cited

Extrapolative Controlled Sequence Generation via Iterative Refinement

Vishakh Padmakumar, Richard Yuanzhe Pang, He He +1

We study the problem of extrapolative controlled generation, i.e., generating sequences with attribute values beyond the range seen in training. This task is of significant importa…

cs.CL2022

Reward Gaming in Conditional Text Generation

Richard Yuanzhe Pang, Vishakh Padmakumar, Thibault Sellam +2

To align conditional text generation model outputs with desired behaviors, there has been an increasing focus on training the model using reinforcement learning (RL) with reward fu…

cs.CL2022★ 8 cited

What Do NLP Researchers Believe? Results of the NLP Community Metasurvey

Julian Michael, Ari Holtzman, Alicia Parrish +8

We present the results of the NLP Community Metasurvey. Run from May to June 2022, the survey elicited opinions on controversial issues, including industry influence in the field,…

cs.CL2022★ 3 cited

SQuALITY: Building a Long-Document Summarization Dataset the Hard Way

Alex Wang, Richard Yuanzhe Pang, Angelica Chen +2

Summarization datasets are often assembled either by scraping naturally occurring public-domain summaries -- which are nearly always in difficult-to-work-with technical domains --…

cs.CL2022

Token Dropping for Efficient BERT Pretraining

Le Hou, Richard Yuanzhe Pang, Tianyi Zhou +4

Transformer-based models generally allocate the same amount of computation for each token in a given sequence. We develop a simple but effective "token dropping" method to accelera…

cs.CL2021

Amortized Noisy Channel Neural Machine Translation

Richard Yuanzhe Pang, He He, Kyunghyun Cho

Noisy channel models have been especially effective in neural machine translation (NMT). However, recent approaches like "beam search and rerank" (BSR) incur significant computatio…

cs.CL2021★ 10 cited

QuALITY: Question Answering with Long Input Texts, Yes!

Richard Yuanzhe Pang, Alicia Parrish, Nitish Joshi +8

To enable building and testing models on long-document comprehension, we introduce QuALITY, a multiple-choice QA dataset with context passages in English that have an average lengt…

cs.CL2021★ 1 cited

AgreeSum: Agreement-Oriented Multi-Document Summarization

Richard Yuanzhe Pang, Adam D. Lelkes, Vinh Q. Tran +1

We aim to renew interest in a particular multi-document summarization (MDS) task which we call AgreeSum: agreement-oriented multi-document summarization. Given a cluster of article…

cs.CL2021

Comparing Test Sets with Item Response Theory

Clara Vania, Phu Mon Htut, William Huang +6

Recent years have seen numerous NLP datasets introduced to evaluate the performance of fine-tuned models on natural language understanding tasks. Recent results from large pretrain…

cs.CL2020★ 5 cited

Text Generation by Learning from Demonstrations

Richard Yuanzhe Pang, He He

Current approaches to text generation largely rely on autoregressive models and maximum likelihood estimation. This paradigm leads to (i) diverse but low-quality samples due to mis…

cs.CL2020★ 8 cited

ENGINE: Energy-Based Inference Networks for Non-Autoregressive Machine Translation

Lifu Tu, Richard Yuanzhe Pang, Sam Wiseman +1

We propose to train a non-autoregressive machine translation model to minimize the energy defined by a pretrained autoregressive model. In particular, we view our non-autoregressiv…

cs.CL2020★ 53 cited

Intermediate-Task Transfer Learning with Pretrained Models for Natural Language Understanding: When and Why Does It Work?

Yada Pruksachatkun, Jason Phang, Haokun Liu +6

While pretrained models such as BERT have shown large gains across natural language understanding tasks, their performance can be improved by further training the model on a data-r…

cs.LG2020★ 7 cited

Consistency of a Recurrent Language Model With Respect to Incomplete Decoding

Sean Welleck, Ilia Kulikov, Jaedeok Kim +2

Despite strong performance on a variety of tasks, neural sequence models trained with maximum likelihood have been shown to exhibit issues such as length bias and degenerate repeti…